Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Kidd (ambassador)


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The result was keep. Aoidh (talk) 01:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

George Kidd (ambassador)

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Ambassadors are not inherently notable. No significant coverage to meet WP:BIO. LibStar (talk) 23:19, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Bilateral relations, Israel, Scotland, Canada,  and Cuba.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:30, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep: A search through newspapers.com revealed several sources providing significant coverage, particularly regarding his post as ambassador to Cuba., (same as 1 but with some added paragraphs),  (obit), as well as non-sigcov providing but supplementary sources like  (multiple mentions in this book) and , as well as other supplementary sources on GBooks I haven't linked. I think this is enough to push this over the threshold of significance compared to the usual quality of ambassador-cruft that is brought to AfD. Curbon7 (talk) 23:49, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * This journal article also expands upon his fairly significant role in the CMC. Curbon7 (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. First Canadian ambassador to Israel, a major posting. In any case, coverage meets WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:38, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "a major posting" is not a criterion for notability. LibStar (talk) 23:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It is in the real and WP:COMMONSENSE world! -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:30, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:GNG even though there are no news articles on Google. There are some references from independent sources on JSTOR. Globesam (talk) 16:26, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Which are the sources are from JSTOR? LibStar (talk) 23:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * A lot of the ones I saw are relatively small mentions, but I think they do display his significance, particularly and, in addition to the one I linked above. Curbon7 (talk) 00:12, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


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